South Africa hurt by fresh allegations

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SOUTH Africa’s turbulent World Cup build-up was rocked further yesterday with more damaging allegations that issues of race and colour still haunt the national team. Last week, Geo Cronje, the bearded Afrikaner lock, was suspended from the training squad after it was claimed that he had refused to room with Quinton Davids, a Coloured team-mate. Cronje, however, was cleared at the weekend when the South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) released a statement in which it said that there was no “conclusive evidence” that his actions were based on racism.